A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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*Beale, n. ? —1649 Bk. Pasquils 154.
They now be knights were lately carles. The baronets have their red seale, Bot these have neither stamp nor beale